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Tame EP stop flying to Salinas from Quito, route to which you operated with 2 weekly frequencies in ATR42-500 aircraft.
The route that I start a little more than 4 years, exactly the 23 of January of 2014, comes to an end after having been the flight that inaugurated the new terminal at Ulpiano Páez Airport and the last flight operated last domingo 28 October.
UPDATE 2/28/2019
The airline with Resolution 01-2019, Tame EP was authorized to suspend the Quito route – Salinas for the term of 1 year to count from 4 march 2019:
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Salinas Airport, located in the Province of Santa Elena, It has an extension of 1.800 square meters and after an investment of $15,924,429.94 million dollars, the still brand new passenger terminal, misses what was his only regular commercial flight.
It should be remembered that the Cosme Renella Aviation Academy of the Ecuadorian Air Force, pilot schools and private flights. Between 2008 the disappeared VIP operated from Quito.
This route with an interesting tourist potential, came to operate with up to 3 weekly flights on Thursdays, friday and sunday, but at the closure of the route it operated only on Sundays.
gradually, the airline was reducing its flights, moving from two weekly flights on Thursdays and Sundays to one weekly flight.
With some problems due to availability of Tame's ATR aircraft, the route suffered some inconveniences that generated that passengers had to be transferred by land to and from Salinas to connect in Guayaquil to Quito.
Although the airline has not yet delivered any official statement, this suspension is possibly due to low occupancy and the airline's need to reduce losses, optimizing its resources in routes of greater profitability.
For now, it is also unknown if this suspension is temporary, It will be permanent or it will only operate during the holiday season or vacations in the mountains..
Tame EP works like this 11 domestic destinations in Ecuador, having come to operate 15 destinations between the years 2012 and 2014.
Current destinations are Quito, Guayaquil, Manta, Esmeraldas, Sour Lake, Coca, Santa Rosa, Store, Cuenca, San Cristobal and Baltra.
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End of another mistaken route that produced heavy losses just to benefit a certain region of our country
Let Irma see the blood of tame
Hopefully the real restructuring plan will start now, outside the regional interests of the authorities and the DAC, the studies of an airline have to be outside of them and live reality
Each region of Ecuador deserves and needs connectivity, but well done, that's another point.
Richard, the truth is that in small airports in Ecuador it is more complicated to generate profitability, I even think that the ATR42-500 is too big to go to Salinas where there is not tourist demand all year round compared to other coastal sites.
Medium and long-haul routes are, of course, the ones that bring the most revenue and benefits, but there are also greater demands., what must be ensured is the minimum percentage of occupation. Last month I saw an Embraer in Bogotá 190 by TAME, because little by little the company wants to grow again before sending aircraft of the A320 family.
The truth is that I don't see a true recovery of Tame on the horizon , With those expensive fares and poor service, competing with Avianca and Lan at the local level is almost impossible., on top of that they still record losses, you must work on connections whether they are your own or with shared code, an example is the trip to New York.